NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1983, No. 43, $3.50 Making ... - Wood Tools
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1983, No. 43, $3.50 Making ... - Wood Tools
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1983, No. 43, $3.50 Making ... - Wood Tools
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<strong>No</strong>thing scales<br />
like a Deere<br />
1936 John Deere.<br />
Gilson Rieke, of Ruthven, Iowa, started farming 45 years ago on his<br />
father's tractor, a 1936 International. After finishing high school, he<br />
worked as a farm machinery mechanic, and got to know tractors piece<br />
by piece. All the while his hobby has been making miniatures, mainly<br />
of walnut. Six years ago, Rieke drove<br />
lis<br />
a tractor into one bay of his twocar<br />
garage, and in the other bay, where his woodshop is, he duplicated<br />
every visible part of that tractor, to scale. Five hundred hours later,<br />
he had a model of the 1936 International he first drove. He's made<br />
five different miniatures this way, borrowing neighbors' tractors for<br />
variety, but they're all 1936 models. That's what he started on.<br />
Phoros: Genelli<br />
1936 International,<br />
top left and at left .
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